About Peter
Peter Plaistowe is a counsellor with eight years' experience who focuses on creating a respectful, compassionate space where people can talk about what matters to them. He uses an integrative style that adapts to each person's needs and helps them make sense of difficult feelings. Peter works with anxiety alongside stress, depression and other common concerns.
He has a background supporting people through grief, including bereavement linked to substance misuse.
Background and approach
He also helps with low self-esteem, career and work issues, and the emotional strain of life changes. His interest in forgiveness, guilt and shame, and loneliness means he often helps people who feel stuck or isolated. Peter describes his approach as integrative, drawing on person-centred ideas that prioritise a warm therapeutic relationship.
He also uses psychodynamic thinking to look at patterns from the past, and cognitive-behavioural techniques to address unhelpful thinking and behaviour. Transactional analysis is another influence he brings into sessions when it fits the person’s goals. He offers short-term and longer-term therapy, matching the length of work to each situation.
Sessions can be arranged by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that suits you. He is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, listed as BACP. Sessions are offered in English and are delivered online by video, phone, live chat or text messaging.
Peter does not accept international clients and works from the United Kingdom.
Approaches in online counselling and how they help
Peter works in an integrative way and often draws on person-centred and cognitive-behavioural approaches. Person-centred work focuses on building a warm, supportive relationship so people feel heard and understood; it helps when someone needs space to talk and reflect. Cognitive-behavioural techniques look at patterns of thinking and behaviour and offer practical steps to reduce anxiety and lift mood.He also uses psychodynamic ideas to help people see recurring patterns that come from earlier life experiences. That approach can be useful when someone wants to understand why certain feelings keep returning rather than just treating immediate symptoms. The therapist will discuss these options with clients and together decide which combination makes most sense for their situation and goals.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text messaging gives practical flexibility. Video calls are closest to in-person meetings and suit deeper work, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat lets you check in quickly, and text messaging supports shorter, ongoing contact. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and day-to-day life, while allowing the therapist and client to adjust format as therapy progresses.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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